Monuments: A Tomb for J.F.K.

Almost a year to the day after President
Kennedy was assassinated, plans for his permanent grave were approved.
It will remain on that rolling slope in Arlington National Cemetery
where he was first buried. Embellished with a minimum of architectural
detail by Kennedy's friend, Architect John Carl Warnecke, the grave is
far more modest than another illustrious tomb in Arlington, that of
the Unknown Soldier.

Warnecke, 45, was a logical choice to design the site. Kennedy idolized
his heroics as a Stanford University football hero and with his art
adviser Wil liam Walton, picked him to renovate Washington, D.C.'s
Lafayette...